City councillors skeptical
of Olympic benefit up here

OLYMPIC cost and benefit
questions went largely un- jase
answered by a travelling |
road show designed to whip
up support for B.C.’s 2010
bid.

“T didn’t feet there were
answers at all,” city coun-
cillor Marylin Davies said §
. after attending the Sept. 16 §
- presentation. to. Rotarians J
and chamber of commerce
members.

She and other council-
lors have asked what bene- 9
fits rural B.C, might get if
the province spends up to
$6 billion so Vancouver and
Whistler can host the
Olympics.

“[ just want the hard
questions answered,” Da-
vies said. “What are we
going to give up for the
Lower Mainland to have
this?”

The tour included emo-
tional appeals by paralym-
pian gold medalist Daniel
Wesley and curling bronze
medalist Georgina Wheat-
croft about the value of the
Olympics to youth.

Wesley recounted how fim
he trained with disabled [i
superstars Terry Fox and §
Rick Hansen after he lost
his legs in a train accident.

“The [OC [International
Olympic Committee] needs
to know there’s a little bit of support from the communi-
ties,” he told the Terrace audience.

Presenters also touched on potential legacy programs
that would be geared to bring Olympic benefits to re-
gions beyond Vancouver and Whistler.

“If we are successful it will change the face of sport
forever in this province,” said 2010 Legacies Now Soc-
iety president Marion Lay.

But Davies said details of the legacy plans were
“very slim” and mainly involved training programs.

“In terms of tangible legacies I haven’t seen tao
much,” she said.

Terrace mayor Jack Talstra declined to sign the Spirit
of 2010 tour vehicle - as several Vancouver Island
mayors had done in suppert of the effort to bring the win-
ter games to B.C,

He said benefits must be spread throughout the pro-
vince.

Talstra noted Terrace’s proposed $8 million multiplex:
is up for $2 million in combined federal-provincial:
grants, or 25 per cent of the project cost.

« Meanwhile, he said, Ottawa has already pledged
$200 million or 40 per cent of the cost of a prapased new
$500 million convention centre in Vancouver.

’ Grants to that centre will -hit at least 50 per cent once
‘the province contributes, he predicted.

“They get theirs funded 50 per cent. We get ours fun-
ded 25 per cent. it’s those kinds of inequities that bother

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me,” Talstra said.

“We feel that we in the north are every bit as British
Columbian as those down south,” he said.

Talstra and Davies said road upgrades ~ such as Hwy
16 and the proposed Stewart-Omineca resource road ~
would be welcomed in this region.

Much debate of the merits of the Olympic bid has fo-
cussed on provincial plans to spend more than $1 billion
upgrading the Sea-to-Sky highway to Whistler.

Davies said vague promises are unacceptable.

“I want to see-a detailed plan,” -she said. “I don’t
want to see us again be on the backburnet.”

Davies noted the prospect of spending to host the
Olympics comes as the province’s services in the re-
gions are reduced because of budget restraint.

“Nine years is a long time. If we're cut and cut and
cut for the next nine years we might as well float off into
the Pacific.”

Promational material with the tour claimed 228,000
direct and indirect jobs would come from hosting the
Olympics, as well as $10 billion worth of economic ac-
tivity.

Talstra said he hapes to get more answers this week
when city officials attend the Union of B.C. Municipali-
ties convention in Whistler.

The Alcan Spirit of 2010 legacy tour is visiting 43
communities in 60 days.

Alcan official Richard Prokopanko said the company

has signed on to support the bid because of the tremen- ,

dous amount of enthusiasm it would create in B.C.
“There will be some great facilities built for our

children,” he said. “Peaple visiting for the 2010 Olym-

pics would hopefully hear about the fishing in Kitimat
and the hiking in Terrace and come back and visit.”

Meziadin denied
own liquor store

THE TINY community of Meziadin Lake will not be
getting its own liquor store, despite regulatory changes
in the laws governing rural liquor stores.

The provincial Liquor Distribution Branch has turned
down the Meziadin Lake General Store’s application for
a tural agency liquor store licence because the commun-
ity’s population is too small.

The province no longer requires a distance restriction
on liquor stores in tural areas that already have cold beer
and wine stores or other liquor retail outlets.

The province’s new criteria does set out a population
requirement, however.

There must be a population of 300 residing within a
5km drive of a rural liquor store.

The Meziadin Lake General Store is located on
crown land that's leased to the Elsworth Bros. logging
camp. ,

Two other rural liquor store licence applications are
still before the LDB: the Tillicum Mini-Mart at Nass
Camp and the Rosswood General Store.

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